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Spectral and Angle-Resolved Magneto-Optical Characterization of Photonic Nanostructures
Published on: November 21, 2019
Magnetic field distribution of a highly focused radially-polarized light beam: comment
1Electro-Optics Graduate Program, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469-0245, USA. Qiwen.Zhan@notes.udayton.edu
Abstract:
This is a comment in response to the claims made in a recent paper by Zhang and Ding [Opt. Express 17, 22235-22239 (2009)]. The authors claimed that an error has been found in a previous paper [Opt. Express 12, 3377-3382 (2004)] and provided a "guess" of how the Poynting vector was calculated. These claims are incorrect and are based on a misconception.
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